esc – enter spanish creativity
»Every system needs an escape valve, a decompression mechanism. In professional graphic design, this escape device is more than the ‚escape‘ (esc) on a keyboard; it is the visual seduction by new and experimental formulas. This is the defining concept of emergent Spanish design today. Spain has become an international laboratory where creators from all over the planet retro-nourish and influence one another. This title features works by Basedesign Ipsum Planet, Enric Jardi, Paco Bascunan, among many others.« (www.Actar.com)
Zitate aus der Einleitung:
»we are in an era that asks good question but those questions have no dogmatic answers. because of that, we must search for a catalog of questions in this book and hope not to find too many certainties«
»more tied and folded papers, less bound books and when they are bound, they are bound by hand. many of these are works that earn no profit. using fewer inks is cheaper and is nostalgic of the scarcity of the past. who needs quatricomia if there are solid inks and you can play with superimposition«
»does all of this define emerging spanish design? maybe not completely; maybe we could apply dutch design or japanese or brazilian design, but this famous no-nonsense crossbreeding of nationalities is becoming more and more evident in designers' lives. spain has become an international laboratory, where creators from all over the world share cities as a huge creative studio, feeding and influencing on another«
Eine Besonderheit des Buches sind unter anderem sicher die kreisrunden Ausstanzungen auf jeder Seite, auf denen oft die Adresse des jeweiligen Grafikstudios/-designers zu finden ist. Das Tolle daran ist, dass auf der Rückseite der »Adresskreise« Teile der Arbeit abgebildet sind...aber man würde sich wahrscheinlich dann doch nicht trauen, das schöne Buch auseinander zu nehmen! Ein nettes Gimmick ist es allemal, das sich auch gestalterisch durch das Buch zieht.
Verlag: ACTAR
Herausgeber: CLA-SE
Erältlich in Englisch oder Spanisch
16 x 24 cm, Hardcover, 416 Seiten
Cover
Einleitungs-Fotostrecke
Intro
Kapitelzwischenseite
